the new 0-6 mo. you can click through the picture if you want to know what’s in the yarns.
climb earflap hat – closer up of embroidery – muted! thought about those ropes with knots in them, but thought the ladder was more readable.
flurry baby hat – and modeled – the handspun embroidery was fun on this one
red blockhead hat – and the textures – tassel!
stripe me helmet hat – and a texture shot – i love the texture
really i do. here’s the kitchen table to prove it. i do plan to clean this up later on today ;)
and a chair in the yarn room
a pile of hats in the bedroom
and a bit of blocking on the bedroom floor
i hope to have some of those hats finished to show you tomorrow! have a great monday.
p.s. the December newsletter is out… if you’re interested.
1 all things that grow on this wild earth
2 family and friends
3 wool
4 health (katie is doing well!)
5 crazy cats
6 good work to do
7 home
8 community
9 and you! have a great thanksgiving. we’re heading to toronto, hopefully i’ll have some knitting to show when i get back.
today i bought my first sweater lot – not including the carnation pink lamb’s pride bulky from when i first started knitting that is a partially put together sweater in the frog pile. that would be 7 years of unfinished, folks. and probably a bad idea to begin with. all other sweater lots were given to me.
while at my local yarn store today, i could not resist this pile of dark, ugly green (ugly meaning ugly in a good way and i love it) aslan trends invernal. i am thinking i will use it to make kingscot. i’ve been waiting for something dkish weight to call my name ever since i first saw this sweater and it has finally happened. of course, i won’t have any time to knit it until mid march, but you know. it’s awfully exciting anyway!
p.s. applied i-cord. before or after blocking? i’ve never done it before. any opinions would be great!
meghan’s belle on ravelry here. those buttons look super cute.
i know i’ve been showing all the handspun belles on here, and with good reason – they are gorgeous and there was also this deal… but many people make these out of fibers other than handspun. you can see some of them here on ravelry – encore, hand dyed wool, artyarns supermerino, sugar ‘n’ cream etc. etc. check them out.
today is the first day in months that i have had a fiber arts saturday at my house. a bunch of friends are due here this afternoon to eat yummy food, potluck style, and hang out doing fibery things. this week has been a bit less fiber artsy than normal… i’ve been re-settling into life. i actually did yoga for the first time in a long time (twice!!). i cooked food. i ran errands. but my fiber arts list looks something like this
1) jonah’s baptismal sweater (custom work for a friend)
2) finish the 10 hats that i have sitting around
3) spin – i did do 2 skeins this week
4) more hats! esp. fleshing out the baby and kids hat selection and 2 slouchy adult hats at least. maybe bonnets. definitely more snow bunnies. we’ll see what i get done.
5) clean the yarn room a bit so we can play with the drum carder and then i can spin that too.
6) put in an order to a certain yarn wholesaler for the next (very exciting) step in the business
out of the 12 new skeins of yarn for tiny canary, here’s what’s left!
1. tamarack, 2. birch, 3. maple, 4. lodgepole pine
they’ll be going up in the shop today.
no pictures at the market, but of the spoils and trades, yes!
hand blown glass cups from linda. she had the booth next to mine – this chair is on fire. she was offering sparkling water, beer, or wine in any of the glasses she sold. i’m thinking framboise myself
the market was awesome as usual! great organizers, great vendors, and fabulous customers. perhaps the most fun (besides being jet lagged :/) was meeting the knitters of both of these hats!
tiny porcelain buttons from amy, my travel partner. seems i never come back without something of hers! – red raven studios.
indeed, we even stayed with one of them – lindsey, the knitter of the grey one. thanks so much for the hospitality lindsey! and to the organizers of tiny canary, thank you and hopefully i’ll see you all again next year.
a squid nativity from pittsburgh crafter bethany – cleo dee’s. this is just the shepherd. i wonder why he might be my favorite?
sold:
5 books
4 bonnets
10 skeins of yarn to happy knitters or friends of knitters
8 hats to the proud parents/friends of small children
6 adult hats
9 headbands
just making the world a little bit woolier one step at a time.
a necklace from from eric of skipping lilies. it took me forever to choose this one because all of their stuff is so beautiful!
nothing inspires me to make more stuff quite like a one-of-a-kind hat getting into the hands of the perfect owner. guess i better get crafting if i’m expected to have enough stuff for the next fairs!
Jessica Rose’s squares hat with one more row – raveled here. and i must do a shout out here – feedback from jessica rose made the charts for this hat much clearer. thanks again!
and a shorter one on the it’s peanut butter yelley time blog.
design market. this coming weekend!
November 14-15, 2009
10am – 6pm each day
Junctionview Studios
Columbus, Ohio
hope to see some of you there!
p.s. couple more AK pics in my flickr, if you’re interested.
kind of like booklets, but not ;)
i’ve wanted to do this for quite a while, but i needed enough designs of a particular item/theme that went together. so, without further ado, here is the first pattern grouplet.
Little Colorwork Hat Collection
this collection contains the Sweet Potato Hats, Fairbanks Hat, and Missoula Hat patterns. purchased separately, these patterns would cost $15. together they cost $12.
there are two ways to buy. when you click on the button below and follow through on the payment, a six page automatic download in pdf format will be delivered to your email address.
$12.00
or you can get it on ravelry here.
p.s. if you have already purchased one of these patterns, for the month of november (2009) you can get the other two for $8. contact me at cosymakes (!at) gmail (dot!) com if interested.
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